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Lesley Stahl of ‘60 Minutes’ did a big piece last night on Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (It followed Anderson Cooper’s horrifying story on rape in Congo and the spillover of Rwandan terror into the country; unreal.)

The worst part (about 3 minutes in, on the online video) came when Stahl said Facebook was the new Google. “You seem to be replacing [Google co-founders] Larry and Sergey as the people out here who everyone’s talking about,” she said. Zuckerberg didn’t say anything. “You’re just staring at me,” she said, almost immediately. “Is that a question?” he asked her. Then: “We were warned he could be awkward,” she said in a voice-over. Actually no, Lesley, that was a savvy response to a terrible, no-win question.